Ukraine

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Wonder if this is the reason the convoy is stalled - cheap Chinese tires:

Trent Telenko, a retired Pentagon staff specialist and military history blogger, suggests another big reason may be Russia's tires, as he explained in a long, illustrated Twitter thread based on photos of deserted Russian Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile systems and his own experience as a U.S. Army vehicle auditor. "When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end," the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. "No one exercised that vehicle for one year."

Karl Muth, an economist, government adviser, and self-described "tire expert," jumped in, agreeing with Telenko but adding some details about the tires.

"There is a huge operational level implication in this," Telenko said. "If the Russian Army was too corrupt to exercise a Pantsir-S1, they were too corrupt to exercise the trucks and wheeled [armored fighting vehicles] now in Ukraine," meaning "the Russians simply cannot risk them off-road during the Rasputitsa/mud season." That is a problem for the convoy in the north, he added. "The Crimea is a desert and the South Ukrainian coastal areas are dryer. So we are not seeing this there. But elsewhere the Russians have a huge problem for the next 4 to 6 weeks." Read Telenko's whole thread on Twitter.

It certainly appears the Russians have a big problem or multiple problems, it’s to bad they haven’t got the drones to take out the forward areas of that convoy and create a major bottleneck. Hopefully we have some covert supply operations ongoing to get those weapons to the front.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

It certainly appears the Russians have a big problem or multiple problems,

these things don't typically go smoothly....

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

these things don't typically go smoothly....

no, hopefully it continues to be a big disappointment.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by scottw

1/3rd of Taiwan mysteriously lost power...that's weird

Saw that. Rumored to be a failure at one station cascading to others.

Originally Posted by wdmso

Just a friendly FYI

I didn't pass these anti protest Laws those states did ... and we know why those laws were passed and (your BLM reference says it all) it's a slippery slope and it all starts somewhere..

But Truckers blocking roadways is supported by the same party who passed these .. funny how that works

Your slippery slope is not OK but yours is. Got it. Or is it both sides?

Originally Posted by PaulS

Wonder if this is the reason the convoy is stalled - cheap Chinese tires:

Trent Telenko, a retired Pentagon staff specialist and military history blogger, suggests another big reason may be Russia's tires, as he explained in a long, illustrated Twitter thread based on photos of deserted Russian Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile systems and his own experience as a U.S. Army vehicle auditor. "When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end," the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. "No one exercised that vehicle for one year."

Karl Muth, an economist, government adviser, and self-described "tire expert," jumped in, agreeing with Telenko but adding some details about the tires.

"There is a huge operational level implication in this," Telenko said. "If the Russian Army was too corrupt to exercise a Pantsir-S1, they were too corrupt to exercise the trucks and wheeled [armored fighting vehicles] now in Ukraine," meaning "the Russians simply cannot risk them off-road during the Rasputitsa/mud season." That is a problem for the convoy in the north, he added. "The Crimea is a desert and the South Ukrainian coastal areas are dryer. So we are not seeing this there. But elsewhere the Russians have a huge problem for the next 4 to 6 weeks." Read Telenko's whole thread on Twitter.

It was a fascinating read, that the Cheap Chinese knock off tires of the expensive Michellins are of subpar manufacture and simply breaking in the mud.

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnR

It was a fascinating read, that the Cheap Chinese knock off tires of the expensive Michellins are of subpar manufacture and simply breaking in the mud.

And MRE's five years past their expiration date. We need a gofundme to help these kids.